Tag: MGNREGA
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Bengal NREGA workers suffer under Centre vs state tussle
It demanded the Bengal government set up a provisional fund of Rs 3,500 crore to ensure workers have jobs and wages.
August 2, 2022 -
Women participation in MGNREGA lower than the males in Odisha
The number of persondays in the State has however declined in 2021-22 FY with a fall of 5.3%. While 19.7 crore persondays were generated in 2021-22 financial year
June 2, 2022 -
Yogi govt to develop 150 nurseries under MGNREGA
In another 'farmer centric' move, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop as many as 150 nurseries under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
April 20, 2022 -
Sonia Gandhi urges Centre to ensure proper MGNREGA budget allocation
Sonia Gandhi raised the issue in Lok Sabha, claiming that the MGNREGS budget for the current year is 35 per cent less than that of 2020 even when unemployment is continuously rising in the country.
March 31, 2022 -
Rural job scheme
Misgivings that the Centre might delay approval for the states’ labour budgets relating to the scheme are not wholly unfounded. A further withholding of funds is, therefore, likely. Many states are already facing huge arrears in payment to the job scheme workers primarily because of the Centre’s erratic release of funds.
March 28, 2022 -
Disturbing Portents
The unorganised sector that employs the majority of workers is floundering; the number of people seeking employment under MGNREGA has risen alarmingly, exhausting the entire budget for MGNREGA in 21 States in the first six months and forcing the Centre to run a negative balance of Rs.8,686 crores even after work could not be provided to 13 per cent households. Unemployment and inflation are soaring, reducing the earnings of the poor
January 13, 2022 -
Waste to wealth initiatives taken under Clean Green Village campaign under MGNREGA as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
The activity saw enthusiastic involvement of villagers nationwide, the Ministry of Rural Development said.
November 10, 2021 -
Entitlement Awareness Week for MGNREGA workers conducted by states and Union Territories
The MGNREGA was enacted in 2005 to guarantee at least 100 days of employment per year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do manual unskilled work.
September 3, 2021 -
ISRO satellites to help monitoring of MGNREGA works in rural India
This is for the first time in the world that such a hi-tech technology is used to integrate a wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high resolution earth observation data to analyse performance and position of previous work assets completed under various schemes and evaluate it through appropriate state authorities.
August 26, 2021 -
Turtle safety: HC panel seeks more vigil on trawlers
The mortality of the olive ridleys along the Odisha coast is attributed mainly due to the trawling operations in the sea as incidental killing due to suffocation in fishing nets of trawlers or by injury inflicted by the propellers of the trawler, the experts' panel stated in its report.
March 17, 2021 -
Akhilesh Yadav takes a jibe at UP CM on promise of providing jobs
Seeking to provide employment to migrant workers, Adityanath had recently announced a plan to generate 1 crore jobs and asked officials to increase work avenues.
June 23, 2020 -
MGNREGA must be ‘scaled up’ to help migrant workers, Congress to Centre
Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said as many as 12 crore people, as of March 31, 2020, have benefitted cumulatively from this scheme ever since its inception.
June 9, 2020 -
Reform without a human face
Workers must be empowered and not robbed of their rights, argues Alok Ray.
May 26, 2020 -
Amphan claims 72 lives in Bengal
CM announces an ex-gratia of Rs 2.5 lakh for family members of deceased.
May 22, 2020 -
UP to employ migrants reaching home for making 10,000 km roads under MGNREGA, PMGSY
A maximum of 42 roads will be built under the PM's flagship scheme in Deoria district, followed by Amroha with 35 new roads.
May 13, 2020 -
Sonia Gandhi asks PM Modi to give 21 days’ wages in advance to MGNREGA workers
Devoid of an alternative source of income, she said an increasingly large number of the rural poor are expected to demand work under MGNREGA.
April 1, 2020 -
Whither vision, innovation?
There was no innovative, expansionary vision on display as the hapless finance minister, grappling with revenue, debt, expenditure going out of kilter and jobs disappearing across the board, used eloquent and unwarranted optimism instead, projecting a 10 per cent growth.
February 2, 2020